On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
I don’t know how this could translate in the design of the tool.
Perhaps showing the ‘operating-system’ declarat
* gnu/packages/math.scm (pspp): Update to 0.10.0
---
gnu/packages/maths.scm | 17 +++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index 6d3d134..659d8a2 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
On 03/25/2016 03:35 PM, myglc2 wrote:
o) Since GuixSD is much more bleeding-edge than Guix, if we make it
easier to install GuixSD, we make it easier for new users to bleed.
o) The fact of the matter is that GuixSD hardware support is weak
(examples: no boot from MDADM, missing solutio
Leo Famulari writes:
> +(define beerware
> + (license "Beerware"
> + "http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/"; ; Scroll down
> + "https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Beerware";))
> +
Now there's a license name bound to cause some confusion!
It looks free... I think it would be
2016-03-27 0:26 GMT+01:00 Leo Famulari :
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:53:24PM +0100, Jelle Licht wrote:
> > From jq's README:
> >
> > To get regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma (note that
> jq's
> > > tests require regexp support to pass).
> >
> >
> > So it seems to be an optional
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:53:24PM +0100, Jelle Licht wrote:
> From jq's README:
>
> To get regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma (note that jq's
> > tests require regexp support to pass).
>
>
> So it seems to be an optional dependency (which allows tests to pass and
> adds functi
* gnu/packages/crypto.scm (signify): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/crypto.scm | 35 +++
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/crypto.scm b/gnu/packages/crypto.scm
index a8d675b..56e2a90 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/crypto.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/c
* guix/licenses.scm (beerware): New variable.
---
guix/licenses.scm | 6 ++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/guix/licenses.scm b/guix/licenses.scm
index 71c0736..9d5335b 100644
--- a/guix/licenses.scm
+++ b/guix/licenses.scm
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#:export (license? license-name lic
* gnu/packages/libbsd.scm: New file.
* gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
---
gnu-system.am | 1 +
gnu/packages/libbsd.scm | 43 +++
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 gnu/packages/libbsd.scm
diff --git a/gnu-system.am
This adds libbsd [0] and a port [1] of OpenBSD's signify tool. [2]
I couldn't figure out where to put libbsd so I made a new module, but
I'm open to advice.
There is one more thing to be resolved: What should I do about the
unusual license from IBM [3] on base64.c? [4]
I searched the net, and al
Usually a second package is added which is just a variant on the first.
Something like this:
(define-public jq-no-oniq
(package
(inherit jq)
(name "jq-no-onig")
(inputs '(
But in this case I'm not sure it's worth it. Maybe just remove the part
about zero depe
>From jq's README:
To get regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma (note that jq's
> tests require regexp support to pass).
So it seems to be an optional dependency (which allows tests to pass and
adds functionality). I could make it a build-time dependency, or not.
What is the 'guix
Even though I don't know if I am accepted for GSoC yet, I thought it would be
nice to start contributing now! :)
I started by adding the gem wayback_machine_downloader (a very useful piece
of software by the way).
So I used `guix edit ruby` and I copied it in the Documents folder. Then I
added
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:06:15PM +0100, Jelle Licht wrote:
> +(inputs
> + `(("oniguruma" ,oniguruma)))
[...]
> +(description "jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and
> +filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed,
> awk,
> +grep and f
Thanks for your feedback Alex.
I have seen some other packages including multiple licenses in the list of
licenses,
so I took that approach.
I also took the liberty of taking your description, which seems to also be
coming directly from the jq website.
While digging into the valgrind issue, I fo
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Thompson, David
wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> David Thompson skribis:
>>
>>> * tests/guix-environment-container.sh: Remove obsolete test.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> -if guix environment --bootstrap --container \
>>> - --ad-hoc bo
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "Thompson, David" skribis:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> "Thompson, David" skribis:
>>>
I noticed that 'guix environment --container --network' didn't work on
an Ubuntu machine I was on, and t
Heh, I've had this packaged for ages (along with some others) and I've
put off submitting because I don't have a good workflow yet for
git+email. I should probably do something about that. Anyway, your
oniguruma package looks good to me. Here's a few notes about jq:
You listed jq's license at cc-b
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "Thompson, David" skribis:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> "Thompson, David" skribis:
> >>
> >>> I noticed that 'guix environment --container --network' didn't work on
> >>> an Ubuntu machine I was on
It is Linux Mint 17.3, which is based on Ubuntu Trusty. So, yes, as far as
I know, it should be the same on a modern Ubuntu distro.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/resolvconf.8.html
-- drewc
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Thompson, David
wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:29
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Thompson, David
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > "Thompson, David" skribis:
> >
> >> I noticed that 'guix environment --container --network' didn't work on
> >> an Ubuntu machine I was on, and the culprit was remounting things
"Thompson, David" skribis:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> "Thompson, David" skribis:
>>
>>> I noticed that 'guix environment --container --network' didn't work on
>>> an Ubuntu machine I was on, and the culprit was remounting things like
>>> /etc/resolv.conf read-o
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> David Thompson skribis:
>
>> Has anyone ever been really annoyed that C-c doesn't work in a bash
>> shell spawned by 'guix environment'? Me too! And I finally got around
>> to fixing it. I would like to get this in before 0.10.0 is rele
David Thompson skribis:
> Has anyone ever been really annoyed that C-c doesn't work in a bash
> shell spawned by 'guix environment'? Me too! And I finally got around
> to fixing it. I would like to get this in before 0.10.0 is released.
Indeed, that’s annoyed me a few times. :-) (C-z does w
... and the actual package I wanted to use on guix!
From 83cfc9414fca3ab57c949e18c1ceb375a179b59c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jelle Licht
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:31:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add jq
* gnu/packages/web.scm (jq): New variable
---
gnu/packages/web.scm | 21
Hello guix!
I packaged my first set of guix packages, following the guidelines
mentioned in the online manual as closely as I could. If I still forgot or
misinterpreted one of the steps, some pointers are always welcome.
~Jelle
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Hi,
I'm working on a cross target in an effort to get rid of GUB 1) in
favour of Guix and could do with some help.
I have just succeeded in cross-building hello and running it,
doing
18:18:36 janneke@drakenvlieg:~/src/mingw-guix
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build --keep-failed --target=i686-w64-m
Danny Milosavljevic writes:
> guix$ git pull # master branch
> guix$ guix environment guix
> guix$ make
> ...
> configure: error: Package requirements (sqlite3 >= 3.6.19) were not met:
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Please see:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Re
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus skribis:
>
>> It is probably easier for us to try to write primitive compilers in
>> Guile than to start from scratch each time. Then the only blob we need
>> to figure out how to bootstrap would be Guile itself.
>
> +1
>
> Though of course, writing a fai
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Drew C wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Thompson, David
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > "Thompson, David" skribis:
>> >
>> >> I noticed that 'guix environment --container --network' didn't work on
>> >> an
I tried building with --rounds=4 on my GuixSD machine, but it errored
out after the first build with the same error. Then I tried building
with --check on my Debian machine and it succeeded.
Last night on IRC we were discussing this more and I think Leo was going
to try incorporating something fro
From dac1dfe1d9b6716d1aefa339e5145c26dd798565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?al=C3=ADrio=20eyng?=
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:39:27 +
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-freefont-ttf: Update to 20120503 and build from
source.
* gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-gnu-freefont-ttf): Update to 20
Ricardo Wurmus skribis:
> Actually, in this case it’s (again) the ETag header.
>
> ~~~
> rekado in guix: wget -S --spider
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/archive/icedtea-3.0.0pre09.tar.gz
>
> [...]
>
> --2016-03-26 10:02:08--
> http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icedtea
Danny Milosavljevic skribis:
> configure: error: Package requirements (sqlite3 >= 3.6.19) were not met:
Please see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Requirements.html
Ludo’.
Ricardo Wurmus skribis:
> It is probably easier for us to try to write primitive compilers in
> Guile than to start from scratch each time. Then the only blob we need
> to figure out how to bootstrap would be Guile itself.
+1
Though of course, writing a faithful C or Haskell or OCaml compiler
Alex Vong skribis:
> First, I have withdrawn my proposal since I think it is not good enough.
> Of course I will be exploring guix during summer, since it is a fun
> thing to do. My original thought is to first port a working make-like
> tool and then change it to output g-exps instead of actuall
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "Thompson, David" skribis:
>
>> I noticed that 'guix environment --container --network' didn't work on
>> an Ubuntu machine I was on, and the culprit was remounting things like
>> /etc/resolv.conf read-only after the initial bind mount.
>
Chris Marusich writes:
> Chris Marusich writes:
>
>
> Sorry for replying to my own post, but I couldn't help myself. If
> anyone thinks the above sounds too paranoid, remember the Ken Thompson
> hack:
>
> http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
>
There is a way to defeat this kind of atta
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> David Thompson skribis:
>
>> In my recent adventures using 'guix environment --container --network',
>> I noticed that certain tools *really* want to read user information out
>> of /etc/passwd, such as 'git clone' over SSH. I initially h
Has anyone ever been really annoyed that C-c doesn't work in a bash
shell spawned by 'guix environment'? Me too! And I finally got around
to fixing it. I would like to get this in before 0.10.0 is released.
Ludo, I removed one of the tests in guix-environment-container.sh
because it seems obsol
Ludovic Courtès writes:
Hi,
> Please add it to gnu-system.am as well.
Ah yes.
> The ‘miscfiles’ package should probably go to the same module (in a
> separate commit.)
Ok. Separate patch attached.
> This is an unversioned URL where the file occasionally gets updated in
> place, so it’s unsui
Mark H Weaver skribis:
> Mark H Weaver writes:
>> I just pushed a security update for expat. See:
>>
>>https://lwn.net/Articles/681356/
>
> Bah, nevermind. I already fixed this bug last July, in commit
> 99e29da15690a696690b28b065e0d1b19c9610db. That's embarrassing.
No, it means you’re t
Leo Famulari skribis:
> Can you try building with '#:parallel-tests? #f', as shown in this link?
I was also going to suggest something along these lines.
Could you try building with with --rounds=4, say, on your machine? (Or
--check if it’s already there.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
Thomas Ingram skribis:
> On 03/25/2016 09:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I like the goals you’re proposing for this installer. How would you
>> go implementing it? The proposal does not explicitly mention a UI
>> library that would be used, and how the UI code would interact with
>> Guix and Gu
sapient...@openmailbox.org skribis:
> On 2016-03-25 09:03, Chris Marusich wrote:
[...]
>> While it's good to plan for both text and graphical UI, maybe it
>> will be
>> more efficient to pick one to focus on, and treat the other as a
>> stretch
>> goal?
>
> I agree and should turn the GUI interf
k...@openmailbox.org writes:
> The attached is a patch to gnu/packages/music.scm that allows a
> minimal and functional build of MilkyTracker. I'm unsure if this is
> formatted correctly, but I'm willing to learn. :-)
Thanks!
For Guix we follow the GNU coding standard for patches, which
also inc
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> GCC itself is not sufficient to build many compilers. For GHC, for
> example, you need a Haskell compiler such as GHC. I looked at nhc98 and
> other defunct Haskell compilers, but they all have a bootstrapping step
> that either re
Ludovic Courtès writes:
>> On IRC there was the idea to provide “url-fetch/wget” which would be
>> less strict compared to the default Guile HTTP client.
>
> We could do that, but I would prefer fixing and/or monkey-patching the
> date header check in Guile.
>
> In this case, if the problem is d
Hey,
I have a few quick notes that aren't that relevant.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:55:44PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> > 1) Write the simplest possible program (or collection of programs) in
> > the simplest possible machine code. This program serves only one
> > purpose: to enable you to wr
Possibly unrelated, but:
guix$ git pull # master branch
guix$ guix environment guix
guix$ make
...
configure: error: Package requirements (sqlite3 >= 3.6.19) were not met:
No package 'sqlite3' found
Chris Marusich writes:
> Leo Famulari writes:
>
>> `wget https://blob` doesn't count as reproducible :)
>
> Very true.
>
> Self-hosting compilers are a cute trick, but they're a far cry from
> being reproducible. They're just inscrutable binary blobs. If we want
> true reproducibility from th
The attached is a patch to gnu/packages/music.scm that allows a minimal
and functional build of MilkyTracker. I'm unsure if this is formatted
correctly, but I'm willing to learn. :-)--- music.scm.bak 2016-03-25 17:39:35.959715114 -0400
+++ music.scm 2016-03-25 19:39:44.754396091 -0400
@@ -78,6 +7
Hi Chris thanks for the response!
On 2016-03-25 09:03, Chris Marusich wrote:
I would be happy to share with you the hacky little shell scripts I use
to do this today. They're simple automations of the manual procedure,
really, but perhaps they could be useful. I am not familiar with the
implem
Hi George,
On 2016-03-25 13:11, myglc2 wrote:
Reading your proposal and another on installation prompted me to write
some general thoughts about Guix installation which you might find
interesting:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.guix.devel/18206
You bring up some really good points abo
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